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Motif

Name_eng:

Small bones: fish fall from the sky

Description:

Fish in company of other earth dwellers ascend to fight with the sky dwellers. They fall to earth and break their bones. Since then there are many small bones in the fish

Name_rus:

Мелкие кости: рыбы падают с неба

Description_rus:

Рыбы вместе с другими земными обитателями идут войной на обитателей неба. Падая на землю, они ломают себе кости, поэтому в теле рыб много мелких костей

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

ATU ID:

Stith Thompson ID:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.3.1	Okanagon, Sanpoil
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.3.8.1	Kutenai